I’m heading towards the…

I'm heading towards the light at the end of the tunnel -- ALMOST done with grading. In the meantime, what vegetables should we make for Christmas? Suggestions welcome -- here's the tentative menu:

(Update: I've now revised this with people's suggestions. It's probably over-ambitious. Hmm...)

APPETIZERS:
• veggie platter (in shape of Xmas tree :-)
• cream cheese tree with green pepper jelly
• rosemary antipasti wreath
• smoked salmon on buttered thin toast, with capers, lemon, red onions, sour cream
• champagne and cocktails

  DINNER:

• roast lamb, maybe one of these:
  • with mint-garlic-lima bean puree
  • on a bed of potatoes and wilted greens
  • with fennel butter
  • with yukon gold potatoes
• salad of roasted beet, sectioned clementine, goat cheese, baby spinach
• scalloped potatoes au gratin? (if we don't cook potatoes with the lamb)
• brussels sprouts (with lemon and parmesan) -- from Hungry in Brooklyn
• peas or green beans
• crescent rolls
• red wine

  CHEESE COURSE:

• Stilton, date and walnut chutney, English cream crackers (and Port!)

  DESSERT:

• apple pie
• mincemeat pies (courtesy World Market)
• chocolate oranges
• fruit trifle